Shen Qing, a reader from Gansu Province, asked: it is said that people with mild fatty liver have bad breath. I have bad breath recently. Do I also have liver disease?
Zhu Liying, vice chairman of the Heilongjiang liver disease society, answered: if halitosis occurs, we must first look for the cause before we can treat it symptomatically.
The oral cavity is the common channel of the respiratory and digestive systems, so there are many reasons for inducing bad breath. Gastrointestinal diseases, liver diseases, nephritis and heart diseases can all cause bad breath. Among them, halitosis caused by liver disease is especially special, and its taste is putrid smell, which is especially serious.
The reason why patients with liver diseases have bad breath is mainly because of abnormal liver function, which leads to an increase in the content of urea nitrogen and ammonia in the blood, and ammonia will be discharged from the mouth and nose after breathing.
Obvious halitosis in patients with liver disease is often a manifestation of aggravation of liver disease, which requires timely diagnosis and treatment. Once liver coma occurs due to liver disease, accompanied by oral bleeding and obvious halitosis, it indicates liver failure and the patient’s life is about to come to an end.
To eliminate bad breath, you must first develop good living habits and oral hygiene habits. If there is still peculiar smell in the mouth, you should go to the general hospital for examination and treatment of systemic diseases in time to avoid delaying the treatment of systemic diseases.
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